This review will less highlight the film as a story and more as a film presenting the nudists.

The intentions of this film are clearly innocuous to the intended audience, what with the frequent censoring of the lower area of the body but not the upper area (breasts are supposed to be censored according to our culture). Additionally, each cast member here makes it obvious that they find it a privilege to be in the presence of another actor's beautiful (feminine) body while also hiding their shame for being around a number of people who are undressed directly in their vision.

This is clearly a unique nudist film by structure and presentation: the actors have more noticeably tanned bodies; the females seem more busty, clean, and reflective than the females in other nudist films from the same period; the censorship is ENTIRELY based on the careful positioning of the actor, or whether they're holding an object that they can place in front of their more controversial area (blurring in editing isn't included anywhere); the characters do have a passionate, visibly forced Stepford smile of embarrassment, which the actors actually try to hide in other nudist films; the protagonist, Stacy Taylor, shows visible signs of resenting being undressed herself around other actors; and, finally, the nudists are presented in a documentative form in-between the scenes that preserve the story more frequently than other nudist films.

People in nudist films agree to take off their clothes, from the accessories all the way down to the undergarments. Because the selection of actors here seemed more iconic than most at the time, they were hired for the job - the job to LITERALLY remove all of their clothes around people they most likely have no familial relation to, not get TOO titillated by the opposite gender being naked in front of them as they still have to exposition the story and expidite the scene itself (although the models used here in particular are especially titillating), and to do what they would normally do if they WERE wearing clothes, paying no attention to the undressed specimen surrounding.

That kind of courage is somewhat admirable and lovely... Clearly, though, this was intended for audiences who wanted to view a nudist lifestyle for what it is, and not as a way to get themselves sexually active and increase their chances of success in a BDSM-inducing moment (although we don't exactly know what the target nor actual audience was for this film since it's so obscure (of course, people are still purchasing and downloading this film since it's being continuously exhibited and reviewed in the 2010s and quite possibly the 2020s)). In today's times, people like this movie BECAUSE it's BDSM-inducing, which is why it's uploaded onto pornography websites, too. And why one person who uploaded this film onto YouTube also labelled it as a "sexy nudist film".

It's a film that has aged well if that's the case. If the visuals still have credibility, and it's being constantly uploaded onto the Internet, then people are still enticed by this film and it does what it does correctly.

This classic 1961 movie is great! It's educational to me in my point of view, to show the viewers that living a Nudist lifestyle doesn't mean it's sexual. They hide the genitals in the movie as respect to real life Nudists to send a message that Nudity is too, A way of life, not a sexual exploitation. So I understand that when I watched the movie. I love the natural bodies the Women had in the movie also, the breasts & buttocks are natural without implants or plastic surgery. I didn't even know they made movies like this in the 1960's, I give it a 5 star rating. If this would be a remake movie in this Generation of the 21st Century, it would probably be a Independent Movie with Nude Models over the age of 18. The only thing bad about the movie, "Diary of a Nudist" is the three underage Children in the film. I know that this was a different time period then it is now, but in this new generation in the of 2019 when I posted this long review, people who call this movie, "Child Pornography Film" and will ban the film all together.

Film stars Vicky Miles as Bunny Downe ... who's boss at the newspaper where she worked sends her out to get the "Truth" about a local nudist camp ... intending to expose a far more Scandalous operation and to expose the members of the club as a bunch of sex-crazed weirdos ...Lots of pretty girls showing a Lot of T&A for the 50's. The editor of the newspaper goes out to the club to find Bunny when she never comes back to the office ... in the end both join the Nudist club and find true Happiness and total relaxation. Fin

It's interesting to see the 60's from the point of a shock video. Beautiful cars and women with some strange hairdos. Not bad quality either.

There seems to be no renewal for this film at the US Copyright Office. Enjoy the boobies, and ignore the whining of religious nuts. Five stars just to offset the previous poster.

Garbage...

Does anyone really know which of the DW films have copyright or not?

The color, the cars and the beatnik jazz flute music are tooo much!

I think they are great.

Something Weird Video has a complete collection of Wishman Films curiously all uniformly priced which means to me that their vault collection should be free like archive.org. She has an entry at wikipedia as well.

Cudos to archive.org for this release.

I don't consider this cheesecake, to me it wasn't intended to be titillating. Since it was made at the beginning of the sexploitation era, it shows a lot of breasts but no crotch shots.

I loved how the first two nudists introduced were Frank and Annette, I assumed they were making fun of the beach movies.

And those hairdos, women wouldn't go in the water because they didn't want to ruin their plastic sprayed do.

About the time this came out me & some friends found some Swedish nudist magazines someone had thrown out in a park. As a kid we thought it was an accident, but as an adult I wonder why the were left there... Those magazines only showed the nudist lifestyle, no sex. They weren't as titillating to the 10yo me as they were eye-opneing that people lived a completely different life style from what I saw on TV. I thought they were real...

This is a movie I have not seen yet and am looking forward to. I am a fan of sexploitation films, which by definition were films that showed cheesecake while pretending to be about something else. I am familiar with some of her mid-to-late sixties films and the famous Chesty Morgan films of the seventies, starring a woman whose breasts were as oversized as her fashion sense was dowdy. Doris Wishman freely admitted in interviews that she went into filmmaking without previous production experience and next to no knowledge of what she was doing. She was also mechanically inept to boot and left the camera operation and the editing to the people on her staff. This led to a style unlike just about any other director who ever made a film: a real original. Interested persons should check out Bad Girls Go To Hell, My Brother's Wife, and Indecent Desires for strange stories, made strangely, and with some really nice looking sixties sex starlets like Gigi Darlene, June Roberts, and Darlene Bennett. Sorry for the off-topic.

Dull but interesting.

I found the point of view here to be more than a little ambiguous. The film seems to be advocating the nudist lifestyle, but the music and models are pure cheesecake! Only tits and butts are shown (though most of those are quite nice), so may be a bit disappointing for female or gay voyeurs. As in all bad movies, there are stretches of boredom in between the fun parts, but on the whole very enjoyable as a time capsule. C'mon, Zelda, get your clothes off!

The aspect is wrong. Set it at 4x3 on your vlc or other player.
It is a nice 1961 movie.
Unfortunately I lost all my memories of the summer of 1960 due to circumstances of my life that removed portions of my memory, something like that genius scientist on the Fringe TV show. I wonder where they got the idea for that show?
Anyway, I guess my appreciation of this time machine back to the 60’s may exceed others approval for that reason.
I also have a healthy fascination for the naked female form.
There are quite a few sexy young nude females to watch in prolonged bare skin scenes and it has a bit of a story too.
I gave it a high rating so people looking for top rated movies wouldn't miss this one.